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Summary: A Disturbing but Flawed book.
Comment: A disturbing but flawed book on one of the darkest chapters in world history. The court transcripts are disjointed and whole pages spread out a few lines onto the whole page. Depth and analysis is not what this book is about and I found the whole thing disjointed and in the end not very satisfying.
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Summary: No animal sinks to this level
Comment: The events of the Holocaust were the first Cover Up.No newspaper in the West made any reference to it because the German Propganda Machine had done its work and even sent out film which showed happy contented prisoners in POW camps which had simply been staged as starving Jews were led into rooms full of food laden tables and asked to wait till the filming had stopped.Then they were ordered out-they got nothing.
The Press would simply not have believed such things as medical experiments conducted by men who had taken the Hippocratic Oath were true.
The medical experiments conducted by the Japanese under Hirohoto were even worse if that's possible-they went in for live autopsies yet got away with it because the Americans gave them amnsesty in return for their findings on biological warfare.This was one of the longest ever Cover Ups and over 30 years before the first books about what took place in Northern China
Now with all the books about the Holocaust there's little we don't know.
Its also interesting to have learnt that both the Germans and the Japanese regarded themselves as a "cultured race"!
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Summary: Educational and Thought Provoking,
Comment: This book is one of the most informative books I have ever read on the Holocaust. I have recently visited Poland, I spent a week learning about the Large Jewish Community before the war, and the varied process's the Nazi party used for their mass extermination. I visited Auschwitz, Majdanek, Triblinka and Plaszow concentration camps. Out of the 6 books I read whilst on my visit, this is the one that most stands out for me.
It gives a detailed account of what conversations and statements were made at the Nuremberg trials including Testimonies from survivors of the horrendous experiments. Each chapter is related to a different experiment carried out by Nazi `doctors'. It was not only incredibly interesting, but it provoked me to research the holocaust even more as, after my visit I am even more curious to know every single detail about the atrocious events that occurred.
This book did the perfect job by describing the manner and the place every experiment was operated in. Some pictures of the `results' of the experiments are included, and it is because of these pictures and the detailed testimonies and accounts of the various Experiments that took place, that I would not recommend this book to the emotionally fragile. Then again - if you want to know, there's only one way to find out. After all, I am only 16, and I found this book amazing.
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Summary: A first hand account of the doctors trial
Comment: I bought this book because the author was present at the doctor trials. I had hoped for a comprehensive account of the doctors and their actions but it isn't. There is a chapter devoted to the each of the various experiments but I found them generally brief, there are excerpts from the victims testimonies though. It is a book describing what she saw and heard during her time in Nuremberg but isn't a detailed account of who the doctors were and what they did. Even though it was a bit short it was ok, hence three stars.
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